Conversation Piece - Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Organizing a Paragraph
Frost was among the first poets to get a big welcome on the campus, and he taught at Amherst College for much of his life, with stints elsewhere. He believed fimly in poetry as a means of shaping minds in important ways. He spent his last decades crisscrossing the country, appearing at colleges, reading and lecturing to large audiences. Teachers and professors have long considered poetry a useful part of the curriculum, and one of the last places where poetry remains a central part of the culture is the classroom. To a degree, poets have been "domesticated" by the academic village, welcomed into its grove.
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